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Media Player craping out after 10-14 minutes or less

by jonezee50 Jul 11, 2009 12:19PM PDT

Laptop Running Vista SPII Media player connected to a Sony Bravia HDTV to watch movies. I've been doing this for a while and all of a sudden while we're watching a moive that is stored on my HD the screen goes gray or black and the only thing you can do is a hard shut down and reboot and it will do it again even faster that time. The movie will play just fine running on the laptop( no external monitor)

Any ideas out there? or more info?

Thanks
Jone'Zee

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Sounds like heat related.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 11, 2009 12:56PM PDT

Make that call to the laptop maker to lodge this warranty complaint and ask when they can fix it.

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thanks

by jonezee50 Jul 11, 2009 2:18PM PDT

was hoping it wasn't that serious - outta warranty anyway

thanks

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HDMI equipped laptops only started appearing recently.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 11, 2009 10:45PM PDT

That means you were an early adopter? If so try it with the POWER SCHEME set to something like it is when on battery power.

Sorry, not an offer to duplicate web content on Vista Power Schemes.
Bob

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